Santa Claus( Photo courtesy of Damian Flanagan) By Damian Flanagan Recently, my 9-year-old daughter mentioned in the kitchen that as a homework assignment she had been asked to come up with an original story about Christmas.... " I interjected from a nearby table, while looking up from some accounts books.... Only then did I realize that I had misheard the suggestion--I thought my son had said," a child who eats Santa Claus" and was quite disappointed that he had something less absurdist in mi